This post is dedicated to elementary & intermediate CSS learners. If you’re going to learn CSS from scratch, you’ve probably seen a lot of techniques, tricks & tutorials so far. In this post I’ve written my own approach to the most essential CSS skills that every web designer should learn. I really love the articles below and liked to share them with you. Hope you enjoy it!

1- Making CSS Layouts

• Creating CSS Layouts: The Best Tutorials on Converting PSD to XHTML (by myself!)
  
• CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices
  

2- Styling & Using Lists

• ListTutorial by MaxDesign
• CSS Design: Taming Lists
• Style Your Ordered List
• CSS Lists 3-part series article [1] [2] [3]
• How to Create Beautiful and Elegant HTML Lists Using CSS
• Turning Lists into Trees

3- Understanding Box Model & Positioning

• Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
• Box Model & CSS Positioning
• CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide
• Basic CSS Box Model Demo

4- Better CSS Typography

• Advanced Typography techniques using CSS
• 10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it…
• CSS Fonts, CSS Typography

5- Styling Forms

• Prettier Accessible Forms
• Style Web Forms Using CSS
• Fancy Form Design Using CSS
• form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

6- Using CSS Frameworks

• Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them
• Which CSS Grid Framework Should You Use for Web Design?
• CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch

7- Optimizing & Best Practices

• Optimize your CSS files to improve code readability
• Write a well structured CSS file without becoming crazy
• 7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code
• Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
• CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know
• 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding
• CSS: Getting Into Good Coding Habits
• CSS Best Practices

8- CSS Hacks & Tricks

• The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use
• 10 best CSS hacks
• Solving 5 Common CSS Headaches
• Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes
• Most used CSS tricks
• One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics

9- CSS Buttons, Boxes & Round Corners

• CSS and Round Corners: Build Boxes with Curves
• 25 Rounded Corners Techniques with CSS
• How to make a list with rounded corners, auto width and hover effect
• Rediscovering the button element
• How to make sexy buttons with CSS
• CSS Message Box collection
• Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Color
• Sexy CSS Hover Button
• Beautiful CSS buttons with icon set

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